On Wednesday, a federal grand jury indicted Sandy’s wife 63-year-old Kay as well, and last year’s 10-count indictment has been superseded by a 22-count indictment involving the husband and wife. Sandy still faces those mail-fraud charges. But both Sandy and Kay have each been charged with one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering; six counts of money laundering and aiding and abetting; and two counts of making a false statement to a financial institution.

They are looking at decades, if not centuries, in prison if they’re convicted on each count.

The full indictment follows.

The indictment alleges the couple spent close to a decade embezzling from the bakery, writing close to 900 phony checks on the bakery’s account and mailing them to their creditors. The feds maintain the losses totaled $16,649,786.

According to a release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office, from at least December 2004 through August of last year, the couple “conspired together to maintain an extensive and lavish lifestyle through expenditures of the money embezzled from the Bakery.” The government says they spent the money on everything from a vacation home in Santa Fe to luxury automobiles to a jewelry collection worth millions, and alleges the couple took 223 trips on Addison-based North Dallas Aviation-contracted private jets to Santa Fe, Aspen and Napa, California. The feds also allege that the couple ran up $11 million in charges on their American Express cards.

“The Jenkins also used funds Sandy Jenkins embezzled to deposit into their joint bank accounts, purchase a 2010 Mercedes-Benz, a 2013 GMC Yukon Denali and a $25,000 men’s Patek Philippe 18-karat rose gold watch,” says the release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office. That is but the tip of the laundry list of high-dollar items they’re said to have bought with the bakery’s dough.

Kay Jenkins is expected to self-surrender, says the government, and make her initial appearance in court on March 18. Sandy Jenkins will appear in court again at date yet to be determined.

“The indictment also includes a forfeiture allegation that would require Sandy and Kay Jenkins to forfeit not only the total proceeds derived from the offense ($16,649,786),” says the U.S. Attorney’s Office, “but also property including: real estate in Corsicana and Santa Fe; vehicles, including a Mercedes, a Lexus, a GMC Denali and a BMW; more than $440,000 in currency seized or surrendered to date; one Steinway piano; electronic equipment; six firearms; furs, jewelry, precious gems and metals, watches, handbags, luggage, shoes, crystal and miscellaneous collectables; a wine and liquor collection; artwork seized from the residence in Santa Fe; and two watches seized from deBoulle Diamond & Jewelry, Inc.”

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